One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.